The first person to speed run Animal Crossing is Twitch user 0xA101, who completed the game in 70 hours, but people have gotten faster and faster at the game, with each preceding record being cut by at least 10 hours. According to speedrun.com leaderboard for Animal Crossing, the time starts with 70 hours, and drops to 61 hours, followed by 51 hours, then 38 hours, followed the current quickest speedrun completed by Coldeggman.

There is a quicker version of speed running Animal Crossing called the “play off all debts” run, which can take as little as only 40 minutes.